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Top 45 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Brazil in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Brazil. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Brazil. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Brazil in May 2025

Investor	Artificial intelligence Brazil investments
Pedro Mariani	2
Alessio Alionco	2
Hugo Barra	2
Milton Seligman	2
Caio Maia	2
Carlos Pacheco	2
Nayarah Ribeiro	1
Guilherme Bonifacio	1
Igor Cruz	1
Christian Friedland	1
João Del Valle	1
Dennis Wang	1
Meyer Malka	1
Martin Escobari	1
Helio Waszyk	1
MARCELO BARATELLA	1
Patrick Sigrist	1
Roberto Nascimento	1
Gabriel Benarros	1
Ralf Wenzel	1
William Hockey	1
Mario Augusto Sá	1
Mateus Paiva Lambranho	1
Fersen Lambranho	1
Nigel Morris	1
Pedro Fiuza	1
Florian Otto	1
Brian Requarth	1
Eduardo Baer	1
Joao Kepler Braga	1
Juvenilton Bezerra	1
Joao Pontes	1
Henrique Dubugras	1
André Zimmermann	1
Salomão Teixeira Filho	1
Juliano Dutra	1
José Marcello Mascarenhas	1
Cileneu jose peres nunes	1
Eduardo Pontes	1
Mauro Levi D'Ancona	1
Travis Foxhall	1
Daniel Martins	1
Jason Calacanis	1
José Augusto Schincariol	1
Andres Bilbao	1

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Pedro Mariani

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Government
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.

Alessio Alionco is the Founder and CEO of Pipefy. He attended Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sales
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MeetRox — Callrox allows customer-facing teams to centralize their knowledge repositories, keep them up-to-date and access them from anywhere, using the tools they already love such as Slack, Chrome, or Salesforce. With our white label platform, companies can easily build their knowledge into gamified learning trails to improve the onboarding and upskilling experience of employees and customers.
Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

Technology executive & investor

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Brazil, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
MEDIVIS — Medivis is a leader in AR for healthcare, using augmented reality and artificial intelligence to advance medical imaging and surgical precision.
Nucleus — Nucleus provides genetic analysis of greater breadth, depth, and beauty. Users can upload their genetic information obtained through an established company. The proprietary algorithms will calculate polygenic risk scores and measure disease risk based on analysis of genetic variants and display them in a user-friendly platform.

Milton Seligman

Investment focus

SaaS, Grocery, Big Data
Seed, Series D
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.
Liv Up — Liv Up is a direct to consumer food brand and online grocery store based in Brazil.The company puts together tasteful, natural, and convenient meals and groceries through top notch tech, customer obsession and constant innovation. By using only natural ingredients and partnering with local producers to source only the freshest, their chefs areable to produce naturally healthy and tasteful meals. By using high-end tech and constantly optimizing the processes, the company is able to deliver them broadly and at a good value per money across the biggest metropolitan areas in Brazil.

Caio Maia

Investment focus

SaaS, Big Data, Government
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

JOTA — JOTA is a SaaS company deploying artificial intelligence, big data and journalism to deliver insights and predictive analysis on government in Brazil. The company takes a new approach to public institutions, helping businesses operate in a more transparent and predictable legal, regulatory and political environment. JOTA 's public websitereaches millions of qualified readers each month while the JOTA Pro platform delivers predictability to thousands of business customers.

Angel Investor IBGC - Certified Board Member

Investment focus

Energy, Blockchain, Renewable Energy
Seed, Debt Financing
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

FOHAT — FOHAT, an Energy Intelligence company, is changing the energy sector with innovative solutions by allowing integration of distributed energy resources (iDER) and new solutions for energy trading (P2P TE).

Advogada e Angel em empresas de Early Stage.

Investment focus

CRM, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Makes.ai — Makes.ai is a Brazilian startup that provides AI solutions to help companies of all sizes increase sales, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Makes' solutions include: - AI Chatbot (NLP Powered) - AI Recsys - AI Forecasting - AI Credit Analysis - AI Powered CRM.

Guilherme is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor that deeply believes entrepreneurship is fundamental to make the world in a better place to live in. Co-founded iFood, one of the first Latin American unicorns, and now is developing Mercê do Bairro with the big dream to transform traditional groceries retailers in a strong virtual retail chain.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Brazil, Mexico, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
Civi — Civi App is a security application which provides access to real time security alerts and news information for avoiding risky situations.
Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Angel investor with experience in the retail, finance, and technology fields.

Investment focus

CRM, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Makes.ai — Makes.ai is a Brazilian startup that provides AI solutions to help companies of all sizes increase sales, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Makes' solutions include: - AI Chatbot (NLP Powered) - AI Recsys - AI Forecasting - AI Credit Analysis - AI Powered CRM.

Christian Friedland is an Entrepreneur / Investor, the original founder of Build.com, Inc. Founded originally as a graduate school project, Build.com grew into the nations leading online home improvement retailer without a store operation.Friedland received his BA in Political Science and completed the core graduate studies in ComputerScience at California State University, in Chico, CA.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Jewelry
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

ice — Ice.com is one of the leading e-commerce website that sells diamonds, engagement rings, watches, earrings and all other types of jewelry. It raised $47 million from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The online retailer opened its doors in 1999 and has grown to annual sales of $83.4 million.
Applause — SaaS Platform for incentive campaigns and employee engagement
Hydrobuilder.com — Hydrobuilder.com offers a large selection of indoor grow lights, complete hydroponic system, plant nutrients, ventilation systems, grow tents and more! Hydrobuilder supplies both hobby and commercial cultivators in all 50 states.

Joao Del Valle is the Founder and CEO of EBANX. He previously worked at Grupo Polvo as CTO. Joao Del Valle attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Sales, Security, Software
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

MeetRox — Callrox allows customer-facing teams to centralize their knowledge repositories, keep them up-to-date and access them from anywhere, using the tools they already love such as Slack, Chrome, or Salesforce. With our white label platform, companies can easily build their knowledge into gamified learning trails to improve the onboarding and upskilling experience of employees and customers.
Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

Dennis Wang is a patner at Igah Ventures, venture capital firm investing in Seed, Series A and Series B in Latam. Previously, Dennis has served Easy Taxi as co-CEO and worked with Nubank as VP of operations. Dennis studied BA in public administration at Fundacao Getulio Vargas.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Real Estate
Series B
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

EmCasa — EmCasa is a transactional marketplace that helps people buy and sell a home with top technology and unrelentless customer focus, starting in Brazil.
Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.

Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnershipfocused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website.Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets.In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years.In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany.In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
Series A, Series C, Series B
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Wildlife Studios — "Play Tennis Clash for an exciting game of tennis! Try Zooba for a unique Battle Royale experience. Join Wildlife Studios for a career in game development."

Martín Escobari is Head of Global Growth Equity, Co-President, and Managing Director. Martín is Chairman of the firm’s Investment Committee and also serves on the Portfolio and Executive Committees. Before joining General Atlantic in 2012, Martín was a Managing Director at Advent International where he focused on the financial services sector.Prior to that, he was Co-Founder and CFO of Submarino.com, a leading Brazilian online retailer that went public on the Bovespa and was sold to Lojas Americanas in 2006. Martin started his career as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.Martín serves on the board of directors of several GA portfolio companies including Arco, dLocal, Grupo Axo, and XP Investimentos. He also served on the boards of prior GA investments including Pague Menos, Smiles, Sura Asset Management, and Sanfer.Martín graduated with high honors with a B.S. in Economics from Harvard College and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar. He serves on the board of Primeira Chance, a scholarship program for gifted children in Brazil, and is active with Endeavor Brazil, where he mentors young entrepreneurs. Martín is also a member of the Advisory Group for the Brazil office of Harvard´s Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a board member of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

Investment focus

FinTech, Identity Management, Financial Services
Funding Round, Private Equity, Series B
Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay

Portfolio highlights

NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.
unico IDtech — unico IDtech is a developer of facial recognition and identification technology created to solve document and process management. The company's solutions operate on biometric authentication, digital onboarding and paperless verticals with a focus to transform relevant business processes, making the workflow between the company, government, andthe client to be simple and controlled.unico IDtech was established in 2007 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Incode Technologies — Incode Technologies is a digital identity company that builds delightful and secure biometric identity products for frictionless banking, payment, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode is recognized as a leader in enterprise-grade facial recognition by the US Government. Built for the next generation of consumers, Incode’s products arealready used by some of the world’s largest banks, financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security for those who matter the most: the end-users.Incode was founded in 2015 by a passionate serial entrepreneur and a group of hard-working, goal-crushing individuals. Headquartered in San Francisco, Incode operates globally with additional offices in Europe and Latin America.

Multicultural senior executive with 40 years experience built internationally with responsibilities in strategic and operational functionsManaged P&L at country and regional leves in markets/regions of high growth relevance (India, South East Asia)Strategic responsibility for Global Food business with development & implementationof strategies, Innovation pipelines , Brands guardianship & communication, capital expenditure and Talent managementShaped and implemented the Global Nestle R&D and PTC new set-up being today the blueprint to the present operationsProfound exposure on Corporate Governance through Board membershipsRecently has joined IMD Business School as Executive-in-Residence becoming active working with its faculties and programsMulticultural life exposure by living in Brazil USA, France, Switzerland, Israel, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore

Investment focus

B2B, B2C, AgTech
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ecotrace — Ecotrace FOCUS ON AGRO, founded by entrepreneurs accumulating 14 years of experience in agribusiness, offering an unique end-to-end traceability solution, ensuring reliability, security and transparency throughout the value chain, using a set of technological solutions such as: Machine Learning, IoT, Big Data and Data Science, thus creating aunique traceability platform for its trust and transparency in data through the Ecotrace protocol that uses Blockchain technology.

MENTOR

Investment focus

B2B, Big Data, Internet
Funding Round
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Speedio — Speed IO is a startup that applies big data to sales. By crossing more than 2 billion data points, we make life easier for sales professionals through automation and predictive analytics. Our product is targeted to the global audience and we count on the support and assistance of PhDs in BigData and Machine Learning.

Born with an entrepreneurial spirit, devoted the past 15 years to Food Delivery services and O2O logistics. Founder of iFood and CEO of DiskCook for over a decade, was also a partner founder at a couple of other successful startups. Actively involved in his businesses, has a very successful founder, CEO, advisor, angel investor and M&A trackrecord during the last 2 decades. After making a great exit from iFood and many other companies, is currently in a sabbatical year living in Palo Alto, USA, seeking refreshment at the best startup atmosphere place on earth…

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, EdTech
Seed, Series C
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Brendi — We are the Shopify for Conversational Commerce focused on SMB`s in Brazil.
Justos — Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Driven Education — Driven Education is an education platform for digital professionals.

Serial Entrepreneur with more than 20 years on Proptech and fintech business with 3 successful exits: Zap Imoveis(Globo and Estado Acquisition 2000 ), Suahouse (VivaReal Acquisition 2015) and Kzas (Creditas Acquisition 2021).

Investment focus

Real Estate, Information Technology, FinTech
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kzas.AI — Kzas is a real estate transaction platform that matches real buyers with real sellers/properties with a assistance of conversational AI or a specialized team, making a really painful process from search, mortgage to the notary, as easy and transparent as it gets.
Pipeimob — Real Estate Transactional Platform that brings security, transparency and speed to everyone involved in the transaction
Suahouse.com — Suahouse.com develops real estate CRM and marketing platform to help developers and builders improve the efficiency of the sales process. It helps manage the company's sales business with a greater focus on online, processes, and systems.

Gabriel Benarros is a Brazilian entrepreneur. He attended Stanford University, where he studied Economics and Psychology. Gabriel started a Masters in Management Science & Engineering, but took a leave of absence after receiving the initial investment for Ingresse. Ingresse is Brazil's first social ticketing company.

Investment focus

Database, Software, Advertising
Seed, Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Alude — Alude is a database company that simplifies the process of buying and leasing of real-estate. It has access to the contact details of 332 thousand property owners. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Mobees — Mobees is creating a disruptive and wide-scaling digital out-of-home advertising platform. With IoT embedded smart screens on top of ride-hailing cars, the startup allows advertisers to digitally push brands into the real world - at the same it provides extra money to drivers. Mobees goal is to be as valuable for brands as Facebook and Google areonline, but on the streets.
Gabriel — Gabriel combines nanocomputers and high definition cameras to offer video surveillance services with military-grade encryption, enterprise quality and personal customer service yet honestly priced for residential buildings and medium-sized companies.No installation costs, no hardware purchasing, no maintenance nuisance, no lock-in.24/7monitoring of your building, your street and your neighborhood. Perpetual video cloud storage. An app that just works.Tech from Rio, solving public and private security, serving Brazil and beyond.

Ralf Wenzel is the Berlin- and New York-based founder and CEO of JOKR, the global platform for instant grocery and retail delivery at a hyper-local scale. Email Johrenk7@gmail.com Ralf has an almost 20-year track record of building companies up from scratch, bringing their products to consumers globally, and leading diverse teams. Prior tofounding JOKR, he built three companies, including foodpanda, one of the world's most successful food delivery businesses across 40 countries, which he later merged with Delivery Hero and led through an initial public offering. He also built Skrill, the first e-wallet and leading online payments company in Europe, and Tocororo Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Ralf previously operated his businesses with a focus on emerging markets, particularly in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. He has also served as Managing Partner at Softbank. Wenzel holds a degree in computer science from Berlin University.

Investment focus

Retail, Grocery, Delivery
Seed, Series B
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

William Hockey is the Co-CEO of Column. He previously worked at Bain & Company as an Associate. William Hockey attended Emory University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Singapore, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
Town — The complete tax solution for small businesses like yours
Vooma — Vooma is a back-office automation platform that enables automated order entry for brokers and carriers.

26 years old entrepreneur, Co-Founder & CEO of CASH. We are building a future where every Gen Z has control over their financial life at NG.CASH. | Forbes Under 30Previously:- Co-Founded Trampolin, a Banking-as-a-Service startup. Exit to a NASDAQ-listed firm;- Co-Founded Neagle, one of Brazil’s Top 100 YouTube Channels (+8MM subscribers);- Co-Founded FanStar, a Talent Agency company focused on Gen Z digital influencers.I’m also an early Crypto-adopter and active Angel Investor.Made in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jungle — Jungle is a new web3 gaming studio. We develop and publish hybrid games that are mobile first and blockchain-enabled.
Sinatra — Sinatra's AI copilot for e-commerce assists medium and big firms in streamlining operations. through process automation, real-time anomaly detection and analysis, auditing of sales pipelines to increase profitability and cut expenses, and platform integration.
Beconfident — Practice English with AI on WhatsApp and video-calling

Mateus Paiva Lambranho is the Partner and CFO/COO of HYPR.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.

Chairman of GP Investments

Investment focus

Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.
Prota Games — Prota Games is the most popular eSports learning platform of Brazil with League of Legends and Fortnite Classes

Nigel Morris is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of QED Investors. Nigel has a BSC in Psychology from the East London University and a MBA with distinction from London Business School.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Big Data
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

MarginEdge — Only restaurant management software to combine automating restaurant invoicing with inventory, recipes, budgeting. Simple and intuitive, reduce invoice processing time by over 90% with automated payable processing. Request a demo!
Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
NeoSpace AI — Neospace is a B2B Global AI startup utilizing Large Finance Models to assist financial services enterprises in reimagining, enhacing, and implementing credit scoring and allocation dollars saved.

Pedro Fiuza is the Managing Partner of Servtec Energia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.

Florian is Co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform by health systems. Previously, Florian founded a daily deal company in Brazil(ClubeUrbano) that was sold to Groupon. After the acquisition, he became CEO of Groupon Brazil. He has also worked at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds an M.D., D.D.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany.

Investment focus

Internet, Health Care, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Angel
Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Guiabolso — Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumersolutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.
Aware — Aware is a mobile app for evaluating health data and for researching chronic diseases.
Pipo Saúde — We are a platform that sells and manages healthcare benefits (from your healthcare plan to your fitness benefit).

Brian Requarth co-founded Viva Real and was the company's CEO from 2009 to July 2016 when he became Chairman. The company bootstrapped its operation and eventually raised over $74 million USD. Under his management, the team scaled to over 500 team members and acquired suahouse, a leading real estate CRM provider serving home builders and datacompany Geo Imovel.He led merger negotiations with ZAP Imóveis (owned by Grupo Globo, Latin America’s largest media company). The deal closed in December 2017. Requarth is Chairman of the combined company, Grupo ZAP.In March 2020, Grupo ZAP signed a deal to be acquired by OLX Brasil for R$2.9bn. The deal was approved by anti-trust authorities in Brazil and the transaction closed October 30, 2020.As an angel investor Requarth has invested in 40+ tech startups in Brazil and Latin America and he has recently started Latitud, a new project focused on helping early stage founders build iconic companies in Brazil and Latin America.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Brazil, Colombia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Taxflow — Taxflow is an AI agent for US tax and accounting firms and eliminate tedious tasks and reduce manual errors. Our AI agent automates data collection, client communications, transaction categorization and other end to-end tax preparation tasks.
Jumpstart — We use AI to improve approval chances for visa and green card applications. Green cards for $12.5K, payable in up to 21 installments. 50% refund policy.
VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).

Eduardo Baer is the Chief Operating Officer of Nomad.

Investment focus

Internet, Telecommunications, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Mentora — Mentora is an AI platform developer offering personalized, AI-driven leadership development tailored to individual and organizational needs

Joao Kepler Braga is a partner at Bossa Nova Investimentos.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sling Hub — Sling Hub is a provider of data platform to organize the information about startup ecosystem.
Plano — Plano brings financial education for people to achieve financial goals.
Vista Fintech — Plataforma para planejadores financeiros pessoais

Juvenilton Bezerra

Investment focus

CRM, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Makes.ai — Makes.ai is a Brazilian startup that provides AI solutions to help companies of all sizes increase sales, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Makes' solutions include: - AI Chatbot (NLP Powered) - AI Recsys - AI Forecasting - AI Credit Analysis - AI Powered CRM.

Joao Pontes

Investment focus

EdTech, Training, Education
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OpenPBL.ai — OpenPBL uses artificial intelligence to reduce the costs of businesses and schools with the active development of behavioral skills....Companies are increasingly demanding from their employees the development of professional behavioral skills that will allow them not only to achieve the expected results but to achieve them in the most efficientway possible.Problem-Based Learning, or simply PBL, is a proven effective learning strategy for developing these kinds of professional behavioral skills. However, the courses of schools that traditionally apply the full PBL process, such as Harvard, Minerva School, and École 42 are not accessible to most professionals.The OpenPBL's mission is to democratize the "problem-based professional education", allowing popular access to learning experiences based on typical career problems. ...The company is currently promoting a fundraising roadshow. More details on https://bit.ly/OpenPBL-Business-Pitch.

Henrique Dubugras is Founder and Co-CEO of Brex — the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me — the Stripe of Brazil — when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique soldPagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Brazil, Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.
Portal — One integration opens the entire world of Web3 to your users. DeFi, games, NFTs, and more.

André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).

Investment focus

Software, Video, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DISS-CO — DISS-CO's Innovative GRC SaaS. Blockchain and AI for Easy Compliance, Risk Management and Efficient Workflows.
Super Troupers — Traditional influencers platforms give them a fish for each campaign; we give them a fishing rod.
Sherwa Online Services — Bringing a share-economy into the gaming industry - Connecting, learning and earning money while you play!We are bringing a new way for people to connect and play together, while also having the opportunity for users to earn revenue by helping other players and creating exclusive lobbies.We offer instant matchmaking for both users who aretrying to play, those platforms you can only book a match with someone. We offer coaching groups as well as promoting inside events and competitions for exclusive gifts and in-app coins. We allow users the possibility to play with their favourite influencers/streamers. The influencer can create a featured group where people can make a line to play with them.

Salomão Teixeira Filho

Investment focus

Marketing Automation, Software, Marketing
Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

BettrAds — Our mission is to help every business grow with data ,simplifying dataops and marketing operations with automation. Faster and easy deploying ads with NLP .
Venda+AI — Venda+AI provides a digital presence with no hassle, powering him with automatic ad creation for Google Ads, Facebook, and Instagram. Their services include a comprehensive web and social commerce suite, allowing retailers and brands to provide their customers with experience across online, mobile, social, and in-store channels.

Juliano Dutra is the Partner & Head of Technology at bake startup studio and Co-Founder & Board Member at Gringo.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Human Resources
Angel, Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Devpass — Transform your team's coding patterns into lifelike practical experiences and bridge the knowledge gap.
bud — The world is changing faster than ever, so is work and life. However, management, company practices, and workplaces are falling behind. We believe that people can design and build a better experience and organizations for themselves. They just need space, data, and the right tools. That's why we are putting all our experience and energy totransform the work experience, together.

José Marcello Mascarenhas

Investment focus

Real Estate, Property Management, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Isket — Isket provides artificial intelligence and big data to assist in the decision process for real estate and developers. They provide demographic characteristics for property sales.

Cileneu jose peres nunes

Investment focus

PaaS, SaaS, Software
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Wevo — Wevo is the first iPaaS in Latin America, a SaaS platform for APIs, systems and data integrations, with pre-built connectors to connect different kinds of softwares like Magento, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Zendesk, VTEX, Rakuten, Mercado Livre, among other applications, with customers in 10 countries.

Eduardo Pontes is a Founder and CEO at SaltPay.

Investment focus

Software, Database, Real Estate
Seed, Secondary Market
Brazil, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

Alude — Alude is a database company that simplifies the process of buying and leasing of real-estate. It has access to the contact details of 332 thousand property owners. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Tutuka — Paymentology's card issuing & processing platform helps banks & Fintechs to launch innovative, secure, and flexible card payment products in weeks.

Mauro Levi D'Ancona - CEO @ 180° Insurance

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Jota — Jota: The platform handles finances for individual entrepreneurs and business owners by allowing them to instantly pay, collect receivables, and manage their day-to-day operations with voice notes, text messages, and images through an AI-first chat conversation. All tasks are free and executed in seconds. Designed to save time and money, Jotaempowers its clients to focus on what truly matters to them.

Travis Foxhall oversees the finance function at Clara, the leading corporate credit card and spend management solution for Latin America. Before joining Clara, he was an early-stage investor with Point72 Ventures and Quona Capital, where he focused on fintech startups in emerging markets. Travis was also Chief of Staff at Neon, a leading digitalbank in Brazil, where he worked for the CEO on special projects. He began his career in corporate strategy roles at JPMorganChase and Thomson Reuters. Travis is also an active angel investor, with a focus on seed-stage opportunities in the United States and Latin America.

Investment focus

B2B, FinTech, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Mexico, Brazil, United States

Portfolio highlights

Neofin — AI-powered software for B2B payments workflows that automates and streamlines financial processes, transforming the way companies get paid and pay their bills
Stacks — Close your books faster, smarter, and risk-free with Stacks, the AI tool for accounting teams.
Concourse — AI-powered treasury management software for global companies.

Daniel Martins - Founding Partner @ GEO Capital

Investment focus

SaaS, Credit, FinTech
Seed
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Guiabolso — Guiabolso is the fintech transforming the Brazilian financial system by pioneering Open Banking, to bring the benefits of open data access and analytics to millions of consumers and a fast-growing number of corporate customers. Launched in 2014, the Guiabolso app has a huge amount of granular financial data about its 6M users, powering consumersolutions of consolidated financial management, an in-app curated product marketplace and instant payment capabilities, while providing product partners access to unique segmenting and scoring capabilities. In addition, Guiabolso is the only company in Brazil with a fully launched and calibrated end-to-end Open Banking solution for B2B clients, going beyond just bank account data aggregation to offer modular value-add solutions such as advanced analytics, a white-label marketplace, and personal financial management features. The company was founded by Thiago Alvarez and Benjamin Gleason, two friends who met at McKinsey and aspired to use innovative technology and a focus on consumer impact to improve the lives of Brazilians and transform the financial system.
Canal da Peça S.A. — Canal da Peça S.A. is a cloud-based platform which connects different stakeholders from the auto parts aftermarket by associating industry technical information with distribution chain inventories and enabling professionals and vehicle owners to access this information through multiple front-ends, as marketplaces, B2B and B2C e-commerce, and custommade webpages. The company's mission is to combine brands, retailers, and auto parts distributors and publish efficiently on online media platforms, helping people find parts and allowing companies large or small offer technical products to professionals.Canal da Peça S.A. was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

José Augusto Schincariol

Investment focus

SaaS, Audio, Video
Series A
Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Samba Tech — Samba Tech is an online platform that develops videos to help companies better communicate with their audience.Samba Tech is an online video platform in Latin America and helps hundreds of companies to communicate better with their audience, providing tools to stream videos on any device at any time with Samba Videos, a customizable businessintelligence platform. Samba Videos includes an online media management dashboard, with access to every device. The dashboard feeds the user key analytics (e.g., the most popular content, viewer demographics) about their target audience when the content is viewed. The Samba Videos dashboard has customizable categories and the ability to publish and register videos on one user-friendly interface. The platform is integrated with an application program interface (API) that allows for the creation of any application software the user desires.

Andres Bilbao

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica

Portfolio highlights

DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
Fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

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